Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Bashar Assad (AP)
Once again the High Court of Justice is bringing justice into the harsh reality of the Palestinians in the territories. The court’s ruling, obligating the state to move the separation fence and to give the residents of Bilin back their land, is a warning sign to all those conspiring to steal private Palestinian lands.
For years the settlers, the government and security officials acted together to exploit the separation fence in order to annex thousands of dunams of Palestinian land. The cynical use of the argument of "security needs" made it possible to expand the settlement of Modiin Illit to the east, using the separation fence, and to take over lands from the nearby village of Bilin. If not for the tenacious battle of the villagers, we can assume that even such acts would have been overlooked in the daily reality of the conflict. But the Bilin residents, together with the Israeli peace movements, did not give up and would not agree to accept the evil decree forced on them by the Israeli government. Access the full article>>